IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE FORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM WITH THE PROGRAM RECORDED THEREON

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image forming apparatus capable of surely preventing information leakage during direct printing from an external memory device.

SOLUTION: The image forming apparatus includes: an interface configured to communicate with an external memory device; a file acquisition unit configured to acquire a processing target file to be subjected to image formation processing from the external memory device via the interface; a user-information acquisition unit configured to acquire user information for identifying a user who instructs execution of the image formation processing on the processing target file; a determiner configured to determine, if the processing target file is a file encrypted in a decryptable encryption system, whether user information for identifying a creator of the processing target file associated with the file and the user information acquired by the user-information acquisition unit coincide with each other; and a decrypting unit configured to decrypt the processing target file if the determiner determines that the pieces of user information coincide with each other.

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